BIG RAPIDS, MI -- Peter Bradley will take over as head of the honors program at Ferris State University next month.

Bradley, who starts on Jan. 7, previously served as a philosophy professor at McDaniel College in Westminster, Md. He replaces Ferris professor Maude Bigford, who founded Ferris' honors program in 1997 and retired in May.

At McDaniel, Bradley also served as director of the honor's program and director of the first-year seminar program in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies.

There are 767 students enrolled in Ferris' honors program this year, up from 132 students in 1997. The aim of the program is to provide students with "academic and leadership resources."
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